​Jordan Lewis
Jordan Lewis (b.1990) is a percussionist, performer, educator, and composer based in Olympia, WA. Jordan currently serves as Band Director at Adna Middle and High School teaching beginning band, symphonic band, wind ensemble, and jazz band. He previously was a music educator in the Tumwater School District. Before relocating, he served as Instrumental Music Director at Chaminade College Preparatory HS in West Hills, CA and as the percussion instructor at Simi Valley High School, Agoura High School, Santa Susana High School, Mesa Verde Middle School, Isbell Middle School, Oaks Christian School. He is co-founder and past-curator of the Interference Series, a new music concert sequence presenting venues for experimental and avant-garde music, and advocates for contemporary performance practice. Jordan holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance and a Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance from Northern Arizona University and completed his teacher credential coursework at California State University, Northridge.
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As a performer, Jordan has been featured with the NAU Percussion Ensemble as soloist and as composer. As a soloist on lead tenor steel pan he gave the NAU premiere of Passageways by Baljinder Sekhon, a consortium commissioned work. In 2012 Jordan composed The Mad Hatter, a multi-percussion solo with percussion ensemble accompaniment; the NAU Percussion Ensemble premiered the piece in the same year. Jordan was a performer and leader of the NAU Panorama Steel Band, specializing on lead pan. He was an inaugural member of the indoor percussion ensemble, Dark Sky Percussion, performing in the front ensemble. He was a member of the percussion section with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2016, has served as Principal Percussionist and Principal Timpanist for both the NAU Symphony Orchestra and NAU Wind Symphony during his academic tenure, toured with NAU ensembles to the Arizona Music Educators Association conference (AMEA) and the College Band Directors National Association western conference (CBDNA), and has been regularly contracted by the Flagstaff Master Chorale. In the summer of 2015 Jordan traveled to Ames, Iowa to participate in the Heartland Marimba Festival, where he attended master classes, rehearsals, presentations, and concerts. At the festival Jordan studied with Matthew Coley and James McKenzie. Jordan has most recently performed with the Olympia Masterworks Chorale, Federal Way Chorale, South Puget Sound Community College Orchestra, University Puget Sound Wind Ensemble, Tacoma Music Collaborative, Los Angeles Symphonic Winds, San Fernando Valley Symphony, and Westlake Village Symphony.
Mr. Lewis completed his Graduate Teaching Assistantship at NAU. He instructed and composed for the NAU Marching Band Drum Line and assisted with conducting and coaching duties for the NAU Percussion Ensemble. He served on the Percussive Arts Society University committee from 2011 to 2016 and recently was a member of the PAS Diversity Committee, he is past-president of the NAU Percussion Society, and Past-Vice President of the NAU Composition Club. He enthusiastically served on faculty for the NAU Curry Summer Music Camp in 2013 and 2014 while interacting with the highly collaborative percussion faculty of regionally recognized pedagogues. Jordan developed a private percussion studio in the Flagstaff community before relocating to California. Jordan proactively works to further the art of percussion by working as a clinician throughout Arizona/California and now Washington. He has served as adjudicator for the SWWEA solo and ensemble festival, clinician with the North Thurston School District Percussion Ensemble Showcase and Middle School Honor Band percussionists, and will be presenting at the Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) conference in 2026.